Re: [stella] DD_0003

Subject: Re: [stella] DD_0003
From: "B. Watson" <atari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:06:28 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Roger Williams wrote:

> 
> What you need to understand is that you don't come to Stella to learn
> assembly language.  That's like buying a unicycle for practice before
> you buy a car.  I've been programming in assembly language for almost
> 20 years, and at work I'm in the middle of a 10,000+ line of code
> project which involved hacking an embedded box.  Generating a few
> lines of text on the A2600 is one of the hardest things I have ever done
> in programming.

<snip>

> 
> --Roger Williams
> 

Roger, that is a *beautiful* rant!

Mind if I use it for the intro to the 2nd edition Guide? (I didn't even know
I wanted to have an intro, until I read that!)

B.

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